St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-24
MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY,
Flour City People of Leisure Enjoy Them
selves at Dances and Home
Entertainments.
The Art Reception of Mrs. John Crosby
One of the Events of the
Past Week.
Gounod Club Concerts--A Delightful
Musicale Given by Miss Matte
Brown.
Metropolitan Legion, Select knights
Mayor Ames' Twenty Filth
Wedding Anniversary.

The past week has brought social pleas
ure to many Minneapolis homes, and the
dancing parties that have been given at
CurtiSS, Malcolm and Harmonic halls nave
added to the charms Of the home entertain
mentS, making the week sufficiently gay TO
satisfy most people. 1t will be noticed
that almost every day has added names to
the list OF Minneapolis wanderers who have
returned, and, as the summer exodus has
not vet begun, the city has almost all her
children within her borders.
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One of the pleasantest series of dancing
parties which the winter has known has
been those enthusiastically given by a
number of young gentlemen under the I'M
mediate management of Bertram Smith.
The parties have brought together the
younger people of fashionable society, and
have been rather exclusive in character.
The people present were old friends, as a
rule, and every gathering of the winter has
beer characterized by delightful good fel-
lowShip. The past week has witnessed one
of these parties. at which the dancing pro-
gramme was happy mixture OF german
and older dances.
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\ pleasant event Of the past week was
the art reception of Mrs. John Crosby and
her art class at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Edwards, last Wednesday af-
ternoon and evening. The class exhibited
their work in china painting. The exhibit
was beautiful in itself, and creditable alike
to teacher and pupils. Mrs. Crosby and the
ladies associated with her are not the only
ones benefited by the careful and sympa-
thetic study of art subjects in which they
have found so much pleasure during the
winter Their meetings have created a
wide interest in art, and in so far as this
interest becomes general, it is a matter of
public cOngratulatiOn, for there is nothing
that can give to a city such an air of culture
and refinement as an intelligent and wide
spread interest in art matters.
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Another very commendable thing in Min
neapolis society, and one which reflects the
culture of the city, is the liberal patronage
which music receives. The past week has
evidenced this in no little degree. On
Friday evening the Gounod club gave a
concert at the West, which received general
commentator. This is one of the older
musical organizations of the city, and its
entertainments combine high quality of
music with sufficient degree of privacy to
render them pleasant social affairs.
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The Beethoven club. consisting of F. W.
Merriam'S pupils. gave delightful musicale
at that gentleman'S residence on Wednes-
day evening, which was highly enjoyed by
the invited guests. Miss Matte S. Brown
delighted her friends on Thursday evening
with musicale, at which the programme
was followed by dainty refreshments, thus
combining the pleasures of art and socia-
bility.
The Metropolitan Legion, Select Knights,
A. o. L. w, with their friends to the num-
Der of 400 hundred, gathered at Curtiss hall
on Thursday night, and, after listening to
an excellent literary and musical pro-
gramme, danced until after midnight. The
ForresterS had an equally happy time at
Harmonic hall on Friday evening. The
Daughters of Rebecca and their guests eel
ebrated very pleasantly the first anniver-
saIy of the lodge Oh Thursday evening.
These fraternal Sociables are the means of
atfOrding pleasure to a great number of
people There is always an informal. kind
hearted hospitality about them that cannot
fail to be appreciated.
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The many friends of Mayor Ames and
his estimable wife will wish them every
JOY on the occasion of their twenty fifth
wedding anniversary. and the expressions
OF congratulation and good wishes will not
be limited to intimate friends. Few men
have in so marked degree as has DIR. Ames
the power of making friends. Men may
oppose his policy and dislike his politics,
but wherever he is known there is nothing
but The kindlest feeling for the man, and
all over the state people will rejoice with
him in the completion of twenty-five years
of married life-years that have brought
nothing but happiness to the genial doctor
and his family.